Erica Jong Quotes

Whenever I go anywhere but Italy for a vacation, I always feel vaguely disappointed, as if I have made a mistake.

Erica Jong

• Mistake
• Vacation
• Disappointed

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I could live very quietly, do advertising to earn money.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Live
  • Money
  • Advertising

• I'm addicted to food, so if you bring the cake and stuff to my house, I might walk by and take a swipe of icing and keep it moving. So what happens is I try to not keep it around.

  

  Fat Joe
  • House
  • Food
  • Moving

• I've been rapping since I was 18 years old, with a crew called Blades.

  

  Abbie Cornish
  • Years
  • Old
  • Crew

• A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Business
  • Challenge
  • Economy

• I haven't fallen that much, but when I have, it's usually in the attempt to do something worthwhile. As for recovery, you just have to get up!

  

  Damian Woetzel
  • Up
  • You
  • Something

• Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Men
  • Moral
  • Wine

• Sometimes when you think you are done, it is just the edge of beginning. Probably that's why we decide we're done. It's getting too scary. We are touching down onto something real. It is beyond the point when you think you are done that often something strong comes out.

  

  Natalie Goldberg
  • Real
  • Done
  • Why

• How hard can it be to walk up and down in a straight line? You just need to put one step in front of another; most people do it all the time. What's the worst that can happen? You fall over. Sometimes that happens to non-models, too; it wouldn't be the end of the world.

  

  Edie Campbell
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• And now comes Pete Martell in Twin Peaks and he's just a nice guy.

  

  Jack Nance
  • Guy
  • Nice
  • Now

• When the Americans were trying to conquer the Navajos, they felt this need to capture Canyon de Chelly like it was the Navajo capital. It was a meeting place and a sanctuary of last refuge. To control Canyon de Chelly was to control the Navajo people.

  

  Hampton Sides
  • People
  • Trying
  • Control

• I find the whole Blairish idea more and more repugnant every day. 'New Labour': the term itself is so trashy. Kind of ersatz.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Kind
  • Day
  • Find

• What would happen if we finally succeeded in following the directions of nature and recognized that the great secret of education lies hidden in the maxim, 'Do not educate'?

  

  Ellen Key
  • Great
  • Nature
  • Education

• I love Tennessee, but they don't have the pine trees and the sandy soil and the black water that I grew up around.

  

  Josh Turner
  • Up
  • Black
  • Water

• I may not be as visible as I used to be, and by that I mean being in the clubhouse or on the field. But I'm just as invested as I've always been.

  

  Billy Beane
  • May

• My December is typically one big, sweaty 'wintry mix' blur, not a punch-laden, heartwarming mixer.

  

  Emily Weiss
  • December

• If I'm not nervous, if I don't have at least a little bit of the same self-doubt and anxious feelings I had when I started playing, then it will be time for me to go on. I must have that tension.

  

  Jerry West
  • Time
  • Doubt

• Animals when in company walk in a proper and sensible manner, in single file, instead of sprawling all across the road and being of no use or support to each other in case of sudden trouble or danger.

  

  Kenneth Grahame
  • Support
  • Single
  • Road

• A mistake in judgment isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgment is.

  

  Pauline Kael
  • Mistake
  • Anxiety

• We're not putting this one behind us. I'm not so into the standings and all of that. I'm into the quality of play, and for two games in a row, our defensive quality of play was not good enough.

  

  Brad Soderberg
  • Play
  • Quality
  • Games

• The first pitch I played on, for my first club, Braine-le-Comte, was only a metre from our house! I progressed very quickly.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • House
  • First
  • Club

• At every turn, when humanity is asked the question, 'Do you want temporary economic gain or long-term environmental loss, which one do you prefer,' we invariably choose the money.

  

  Ethan Hawke
  • Money
  • Humanity
  • Environmental

• Whenever I go anywhere but Italy for a vacation, I always feel vaguely disappointed, as if I have made a mistake.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Mistake
  • Vacation
  • Disappointed